'Crushed' Victoria Beckham Reportedly 'Beside Herself' as 'Bratty' Son Brooklyn Issues Public Snub

The festive season is typically a time for the Beckham family to retreat together behind the gates of their sprawling estates, but Christmas 2025 told a starkly different story. While Victoria Beckham spent the holiday season in the United Kingdom with David and their younger children, their eldest son Brooklyn opted to celebrate three thousand miles away in Palm Beach with his wife Nicola Peltz and her billionaire parents.

For Victoria, the absence of her firstborn cut deeper than any previous rift—and friends say the former Spice Girl has been struggling to cope with the reality of a relationship that appears fundamentally broken.

'Victoria is absolutely beside herself over what's happening with Brooklyn,' according to sources close to the 51-year-old fashion entrepreneur. 'She's trying so hard not to show it publicly, but she spent a lot of the holidays in tears.' The emotional toll has been profound. Victoria, who built an empire on perfectionism and control, finds herself unable to influence the one relationship that matters most to her—her son.

The estrangement reached a chilling crescendo when Brooklyn, now 26, reportedly sent his parents a formal legal letter last summer instructing them to communicate with him solely through his lawyers.

The move was extraordinarily stark. No phone calls. No direct messages. No casual family texts. Every communication would henceforth be filtered through legal representatives, a boundary so severe it signals not merely disappointment, but a complete emotional shutdown.

The situation spiralled further in December when Brooklyn blocked both his parents and his brothers Romeo and Cruz on Instagram, severing even the final digital thread connecting them. For a family that has monetised their togetherness for decades—through reality television, magazine spreads and carefully curated social media—this public erasure felt like a symbolic death knell.

David, sensing the gravity of the situation, attempted reportedly a subtle reconciliation by sharing a nostalgic black-and-white childhood photograph of Brooklyn on New Year's Eve, but the gesture went unacknowledged.

Brooklyn Beckham Estrangement: The Wedding That Fractured Everything

The seeds of this catastrophic breakdown were sown at the altar in April 2022. When Brooklyn and Nicola wed at a lavish ceremony in Palm Beach, all parties insisted the day was flawless. Yet sources have since revealed that Nicola felt 'ruined' when Victoria allegedly commandeered the couple's first dance.

Whilst Brooklyn and Nicola shared their moment to a song performed by musician Marc Anthony, the performer reportedly introduced Victoria as 'the most beautiful woman in the room tonight,' drawing focus and affection away from the bride. Nicola, allegedly devastated, left the moment in tears.

What should have been the beginning of a new chapter became the catalyst for years of simmering resentment. The rift widened when Nicola, who is worth significantly less than the combined £500 million net worth of David and Victoria, chose to wear Valentino Haute Couture rather than a gown from Victoria's atelier—a professional slight that reverberated through the family for months.

Brooklyn Beckham Estrangement: A Son's Complete Withdrawal from Family Life

Since the wedding, the deterioration has been relentless. Brooklyn failed to wish his father happy birthday on Father's Day. He was conspicuously absent from David's milestone 50th birthday celebrations in May 2025 and his knighthood ceremony at Windsor Castle that November. Most significantly, he and Nicola renewed their wedding vows in August 2025—without a single member of his family present.

David and Victoria, sources insist, have made 'every effort' to reach their son, extending repeated invitations and holding open the possibility of reconciliation. Yet Brooklyn has shown no signs of relenting.

Victoria remains convinced he is suffering and in desperate need of intervention, but the walls he has constructed appear impenetrable. For a mother who has always protected her children fiercely, the realisation that she cannot protect her son from himself is perhaps the most devastating blow of all.